WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face The Nation” this morning, to respond to an interview given by Speaker Pelosi. In the interview, Cheney emphasized Republicans’ priorities moving forward and shared her criticism toward the spending plans of President Biden and Speaker Pelosi.
Cheney expressed how the Biden/Pelosi spending plan needs to be redone to actually focus on infrastructure and to avoid raising taxes & destroying jobs.
“Well, it’s a very different proposal, obviously. Something less than six percent, as you mentioned, of this proposal that President Biden has put forward, is actually focused on infrastructure. The National Association of Manufacturers has said we will probably lose over a million jobs if this is enacted, and you are certainly going to see in addition to the corporate tax increases in the bill, you’ll see middle-class tax increases,” said Rep. Liz Cheney in the interview this morning.
The Republican Congresswoman also argued that the bill needs to be revised in order to represent both sides of the aisle and the American people.
“Look, the bill would need to be fundamentally redone. It would need to be a different bill. It would need to actually focus on infrastructure, not on so many of the additional Green New Deal spending priorities, spending priorities that are focused on helping Democrat allies around the country,” said Cheney.
Cheney went on to explain that the economic repercussions of the bill are what concern her most.
“I’m really concerned about the impact on the economy, the potential inflationary pressure that we might see with this additional injection of cash, and so much of it is unnecessary. Six percent is actually focused on the kind of infrastructure that there is bipartisan support for. So, I would urge Democrats, let’s focus on that,” Cheney said.
Toward the end of the interview, Cheney also touched upon the need for Speaker Pelosi to create a bipartisan Jan. 6, commission and pushed for a clearer understanding between the party lines about the insurrection at the Capitol.
“January 6th was clearly an attack that was attempted to stop the counting of electoral votes. I just listened to Speaker Pelosi say that, “Right now, we’re in a good place.” We’re not in a good place, we absolutely need, and it is her responsibility to create, a commission, a bipartisan commission to study what happened, to understand what the provocation was, to understand what happened, to make sure it never happens again.”
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